When comparing DigitalOcean vs Luna Node, the Slant community recommends DigitalOcean for most people. In the question“What are the best VPS providers?”DigitalOcean is ranked 1st while Luna Node is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose DigitalOcean is:

DigitalOcean has a control panel that's intuitive and easy to use, new servers (Droplets) can be spun up in under a minute and they offer stock "apps" (LAMP, RoR, Wordpress) that can be deployed instantly. There's also an [extensive documentation](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials) for people new to VPS.

Pros

Pro

Beginner-friendly

DigitalOcean has a control panel that's intuitive and easy to use, new servers (Droplets) can be spun up in under a minute and they offer stock "apps" (LAMP, RoR, Wordpress) that can be deployed instantly. There's also an extensive documentation for people new to VPS.

Pro

Pay-as-you-go with multiple payment options

Billing is done per hour. Each month has a 672 hour (28-day) billing cap with server runtime past that point being free of charge. DigitalOcean accepts payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal.

Pro

Good API

DigitalOcean has an API for creating and destroying droplets and replicating droplet control panel functionality. The API is RESTful, uses oAuth, supports IPv6 and comes with an extensive documentation.

Pro

Great customer support

Pro

Flexible backup mechanism

Automatic backups can be made for 20% of the droplet price and an unlimited amount of snapshots at $0.02 per GB of storage can be made manually.

Pro

Competetive starter-level pricing

With pricing that starts at $5/month. It's a pretty cheap VPS provider.

Pro

(New) Block Storage Volumes

You can now attach dynamic distributed (assuming SAN) storage to a droplet. Multiple droplets cannot attach to the same volume. The storage is very affordable and there are easy to follow how-to guides.(as of writing, only in certain datacenters)

Pro

Use any OS

Uses KVM so you can use any OS, even more obscure ones like NixOS. Upload your own ISOs ore QEMU images.

Pro

Extremely low cost

Plans start at $3.6 per month and include plans where you only pay for the CPU and bandwidth that you use. A 2GB RAM 40GB disk 2 core VPS that is idle most of the time can cost ~$6 per month.

Pro

VNC access to terminal

Makes it easier to fix boot image issues on unsupported ISOs.

Pro

Bitcoin payment support

Pay for credit through many payment methods including Bitcoin and Paypal.

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Cons

Con

No DDoS protection

When Digital Ocean detects what they think may be a DoS attack, they will cut traffic to the droplet to avoid performance drops to neighbors etc. This means if your droplet comes under attack, or appears to be under attack, it will be disconnected from the network, effectively down.

Con

Setup is not as fast as advertised

A person who wants to set this up, set that up, configure this and so forth - and who has minimal time pressures would be okay. But the time it takes to be set up can be crucial for people who want to get up and running as fast as possible.

Limited payment options

Con

Don't accept Bitcoin yet

Con

Bitcoin can only be used as a payment after a credit card has been added to the users account

Bitcoin can only be used once the user has added their credit card info into their Luna node account. This pretty much negates the point of using bitcoin, if you need to hand over your personal information anyways.

Con

Occasional downtime

Has planned and unplanned downtime of the network occasionally. More frequent than larger VPS providers, on the order of 5 minutes a month. Not an issue for personal and small business use. They are actively improving this though.

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